CERVANTES

May I set the stage?

I shall impersonate a man

Come, enter into my imagination and see him!

His name... Alonso Quijana... a country squire

No longer young... bony, hollow-faced

Eyes that burn with the fire of inner vision

Being retired, he has much time for books

He studies them from morn to night and often through the night as well

And all he reads oppresses him

Fills him with indignation at man's murderous ways toward man

And he conceives the strangest project ever imagined

To become a knight-errant

And sally forth into the world to right all wrongs

No longer shall he be plain Alonso Quijana

But a dauntless knight known as

Don Quixote de La Mancha!